A Posthumous Nobel for Medicine?

By

Stefanie Ilgenfritz

Oct 3, 2011 12:38 pm ET

Just hours after the announcement that the 2011 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology had been awarded to three scientists for their work on the immune system, Rockefeller University announced that one of the researchers, Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, had died a few days earlier. Dr. Steinman was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer four years ago, and his […]